[Foundation-l] Sue Gardner, Erik Möller , William Pietri: Where is FlaggedRevisions?

William Pietri william at scissor.com
Mon Mar 1 05:10:06 UTC 2010


On 02/28/2010 08:43 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> On 28 February 2010 20:24, William Pietri<william at scissor.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Menacing people like that with "consequences" mainly serves to destroy
>> motivation, not create it, so if you're truly interested in getting this
>> done, I ask you not to do that again.
>>      
> Nobody has done any menacing. He asked what the consequences would be,
> he didn't threaten consequences. (That there will be consequences if
> you don't do your job should go without saying. Those consequences
> will come from your boss, not the community, though.)
>    

Well, in my experience, when somebody starts out with "what the fuck" 
and ends up talking about consequences, it is rarely a purely academic 
inquiry into organizational practices. But if I read it wrong, I'd be 
glad to apologize.

I think the people working on this (Aaron and Howie in particular) are 
both talented and hardworking, so I feel protective of them. I'd like 
them to spend a long time working for the Wikimedia Foundation, and 
anything that might push against that is going to rile me up some.

William




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